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    "id": 234391,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Karaba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, and also, Mr. G.G. Kariuki, for allowing me to contribute towards this Motion, which is very important to me. This Motion should even have come earlier. It should have come in 1963! It seems that many people were not interested in it at that time, maybe, due to the rate of poverty that the landless are suffering now. It is coming at a time when the landlords have grabbed land and marginalized very many people. For example, we have very many landless squatters living on the roadside in Central Province. Just the other day, I asked a Question here about the resettlement of squatters who are living on the road reserves in my district, and the Minister did not even say whether they are going to resettle them or not. Up to today, that is the true situation in Kirinyaga. We have very many people who are living on the road reserves. Therefore, this Motion is seeking to establish a Bill that will compel the Government to acquire land and distribute it to the squatters or landless. These are the people who fought for our Independence, but we have left them to suffer. Once this Motion is passed, the Mover should bring a Bill for us to deliberate on it and approve it. It is the duty of the Executive to implement the proposals of hon. Members to alleviate the sufferings of our people by giving them land. I beg to support."
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